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“Halfway to the house Stan stopped and turned to Jane. He put his hands on her shoulders and drew her toward him. "I'm glad we're going steady," he whispered. "So am I." In spite of the reassuring weight of his bracelet on her wrist, Jane suddenly felt shy. It seemed strange to be so close to Stan, to feel his crisp clean shirt against her cheek. She could not look up at him. Gently Stan lifted her face to his. "You're my girl," he whispered. -Fifteen”

Love Romance Girl Fiction Dating Fifteen Teen Boy

Author:Beverly Cleary

“I’m mean? That’s the worst you can throw at me?” “Mean and self-pitying. Does that make it better?” “And what are you, Astrid?” he shouted. “A smug know-it-all! You point your finger at me and say, ‘Hey, Sam, you make the decisions, and you take all the heat.’” “Oh, it’s my fault? No way. I didn’t anoint you.” “Yeah, you did, Astrid. You guilted me into it. You think I don’t know what you’re all about? You used me to protect Little Pete. You use me to get your way. You manipulate me anytime you feel like it.” “You really are a jerk, you know that?” “No, I’m not a jerk, Astrid. You know what I am? I’m the guy getting people killed,” Sam said quietly. Then, “My head is exploding from it. I can’t get my brain around it. I can’t do this. I can’t be that guy, Astrid, I’m a kid, I should be studying algebra or whatever. I should be hanging out. I should be watching TV.” His voice rose, higher and louder till he was screaming. “What do you want from me? I’m not Little Pete’s father. I’m not everybody’s father. Do you ever stop to think what people are asking me to do? You know what they want me to do? Do you? They want me to kill my brother so the lights will come back on. They want me to kill kids! Kill Drake. Kill Diana. Get our own kids killed. “That’s what they ask. Why not, Sam? Why aren’t you doing what you have to do, Sam? Tell kids to get eaten alive by zekes, Sam. Tell Edilio to dig some more holes in the square, Sam.” He had gone from yelling to sobbing. “I’m fifteen years old. I’m fifteen.” He sat down hard on the edge of the bed. “Oh, my God, Astrid. It’s in my head, all these things. I can’t get rid of them. It’s like some filthy animal inside my head and I will never, ever, ever get rid of it. It makes me feel so bad. It’s disgusting. I want to throw up. I want to die. I want someone to shoot me in the head so I don’t have to think about everything.” Astrid was beside him, and her arms were around him. He was ashamed, but he couldn’t stop the tears. He was sobbing like he had when he was a little kid, like when he had a nightmare. Out of control. Sobbing. Gradually the spasms slowed. Then stopped. His breathing went from ragged to regular. “I’m really glad the lights weren’t on,” Sam said. “Bad enough you had to hear it.” “I’m falling apart,” he said. Astrid gave no answer, just held him close. And after what felt like a very long time, Sam moved away from her, gently putting distance between them again. “Listen. You won’t ever tell anyone…” “No. But, Sam…” “Please don’t tell me it’s okay,” Sam said. “Don’t be nice to me anymore. Don’t even tell me you love me. I’m about a millimeter from falling apart again.” “Okay.”

Mean Emotional Comfort Decisions Fifteen Falling Apart Manipulate Understand Stressed Kill Sam Temple Astrid Ellison Sob

Book:Hunger

Source: Hunger

“When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.”

Inspirational Regret Fifteen Teen Song Lyrics Taylor Swift

Book:Taylor Swift - Fearless Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist

Source: Taylor Swift - Fearless Songbook: Piano/Vocal/Guitar Artist

“This is life before you know who you are going to be.”

Inspirational Fifteen Taylor Swift Teen Fantasy In General Teen Advise

Author:Taylor Swift

“When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.”

Men Made Young Prayer Meetings Young Man Necks Knives Fifteen Scandal Kneeling Prayer Meeting

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.”

Thinking Years Humans Culture Universe Courses Human Beings Thousand Importance Deny Billions Fifteen Thousand Years Theologian Theological Logical Thinking

Author:John Polkinghorne

“I have worked every day since the age of fifteen, supporting not only myself, but also helping a sizable family when needed.”

Helping Age Needed Fifteen

Author:Paulina Porizkova

“Divorce is never easy, but it’s even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you.”

Years Beautiful Easy Husband Models Affair Painful Divorce Fifteen Your Husband Fifteen Years

Author:Alana Stewart

“My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.”

Hands Minutes Essentials Garden Standing Grandmother Gardening Fifteen My Grandmother

Book:No nature: new and selected poems

Source: No nature: new and selected poems

“I was a wayward kid, a rambunctious and angry teenager, but I found acting as a fifteen-year-old.”

Years Kids Found Acting Angry Teenager Fifteen Fifteen Years Fifteen Years Old

Author:Tom Sizemore

“With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always , 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.”

Made Lasts Views Rocks Critics Albums Fifteen

Author:Angus Young

“Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this sounds totally shallow, but my advice is don't fall prey to the freshmen fifteen!”

Knows Fall Sound Realizing Advice College Fifteen Shallow Prey Freshman Publicists

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.”

Years Play Simple Levels Harmony Piano Fifteen Fifteen Years Prelude Fifteen Years Old

Author:Gyorgy Ligeti

“Black music has become a commercial commodity. Live performances are not so accessible as they were previously. It use to be possible to go to the bar on the corner and hear music. It was available for a fifteen cent beer.”

Use Black Performances Corners Available Bars Beer Cents Fifteen Commodity Live Performance Black Music Use To Be

Author:Archie Shepp

“I was tortured fifteen times, thats total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double.”

Giving Pain Blood Fifteen Submission Rope Circulation Bending Claustrophobia Blood Circulation

Author:James Stockdale

“Usually I like playing other people. I like finding myself through other characters. But when you do cabaret, you are yourself. I think it's the most fun, and I tell you, if somebody had told me that, I would have done it fifteen years earlier than I did.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Done Character Fun Findings Fifteen Fifteen Years Cabaret Finding Myself

Author:Faith Prince

“There is a progression of understanding vis-a-vis pro football that varies drastically with the factor of distance -- physical, emotional, intellectual and every other way. Which is exactly the way it should be, in the eyes of the amazingly small number of people who own and control the game, because it is this finely managed distance factor that accounts for the high-profit mystique that blew the sacred institution of baseball off its ''national pastime'' pedestal in less than fifteen years.”

Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time

“The things that mount the rostrum with a skip, And then skip down again, pronounce a text, Cry hem; and reading what they never wrote Just fifteen minutes, huddle up their work, And with a well-bred whisper close the scene!”

Wells Reading Minutes Cry Scene Preaching Fifteen Skip Hem

Book:The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel

“Rentals sank, living rose. I could not afford help. I must be owner, agent, landlady and janitor. I loathed landladying... I tried in every way to augment my income. Small fruit, hens, rabbits, dogs - pottery... I never painted now - had neither time nor wanting. For about fifteen years I did not paint.”

Way Years Helping Dog Rose Fruit Paint Income Agents Owners Fifteen Rabbits Fifteen Years Hens Pottery Janitor

Author:Emily Carr

“I like painting because it's something I never come to the end of. Sometimes I paint a picture, then I paint it all out. Sometimes I'm working on fifteen or twenty pictures at the same time. I do that because I want to - because I like to change my mind so often. The thing to do is always to keep starting to paint, never finishing painting.”

Want Mind Ends Sometimes Painting Twenties Paint Starting Things To Do Fifteen Finishing

Book:Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

Source: Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents

“Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.”

“It will take America fifteen years of steady taking care of our own business and letting everybody else's alone, to get us back to where everybody speaks to us again.”

Years Care America Speak Steady Fifteen Own Business Fifteen Years

Book:Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties

“Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.”

Men Humor Funny Time Behinds Minutes Smart Management Throat Time Management Fifteen Scratches

Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.”

Mind Helping Christian Religion Worry Minutes Habit Cures Fifteen Filling

Book:Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

Source: Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living

“Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour.”

Three Hours Five Built Horse Average Expected Miles Forty Stations Covered Fifteen Routes Riders Intervals Miles Apart

Book:An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill

Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill

“Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.”

Ideas Age Poet Profession Chosen Magazines Editors Fifteen Publishers Procedures Magazine Editors

Book:The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

Source: The Best of Robert E. Howard Volume 1: Volume 1: The Shadow Kingdom

“Been riding broomsticks since she was fifteen.”

Evil Riding Fifteen Misogyny Evil Women Broomsticks

Author:Jimi Hendrix

“I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.”

Men Expression Fifteen Making Love

Author:Rod Stewart

“And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity.”

Years Lasts America Humanity Language Justice White Poor Promise Mets Concerned Tonight Twelve Fifteen Tranquility Status Quo Riot Fifteen Years Unheard Plight

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we have about fifteen languages and three dialects. I grew up speaking about seven of them.”

Three Language Rich Expression Grew Grew Up Seven Variety Fifteen Dialect Sierra Sierra Leone

Book:Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel

Source: Radiance of Tomorrow: A Novel

“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.”

Years Lasts Generations Revolution Periods Marijuana Fifteen Effectiveness Fifteen Years

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.”

“We had an electronic head and arm for Threepio, and I manipulated the mechanism with a joystick. But it wasn't working. The propman said, 'Give me fifteen minutes.' We all went to get coffee, and when we came back, Threepio's head turned perfectly and his arm moved naturally. I looked up and realized that the prop man had a fishing pole with a fine nylon string attached to Threepio's arm. He had rigged another string around the head, which Chewbacca was holding. As Chewie moved his hands, Threepio's head turned!”

Men Giving Said Hands Minutes Arms Fine Give Me Moved Coffee Fishing Strings Mechanism Fifteen Props Rigged Strings Attached Nylon

Author:Irvin Kershner

“I had a guy come up to me once in the gym when I'm training arms and tell me that I should do curls this way. I looked at his arms and they were about fifteen inches. That would be like me walking up to Tom Platz and telling him how to squat!”

Way Should Would Be Guy Arms Walking Training Come Up Like Me Gym Inches Toms Fifteen Curls Squat

Author:Lee Priest

“I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus.”

Mathematics Fifteen Calculus Integral Calculus Differential Calculus

Author:Albert Einstein

“Fifteen years ago tomorrow I had open heart surgery, a quintuple bypass surgery. Thanks to all of my doctors. Because of them, in 15 years of life I've been able to experience, well, acid reflux, short-term memory loss, and erectile dysfunction. Thanks for all your work. It's great to be alive.”

“I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?”

Ifs Thinking Should Doe Government Jobs Standards Percent Fifteen Good Job

Author:Pat Paulsen

“The first real concert, other than going with my dad to see Three Dog Night, was Smashing Pumpkins and Garbage. I was fourteen or fifteen. I liked Shirley Manson because she reminded me of Annie Lennox. They both have these deep, sexy, powerful alto voices.”

Firsts Real Night Three Voice Powerful Dog Dad My Dad Sexy Concerts Fifteen Garbage Fourteen Pumpkin Annie Smashing Manson Three Dog Smashing Pumpkins

Author:Amy Lee

“Our feelings probably are not less strong at fifty than they were ten or fifteen years before; but they have changed their objects, and dwell on far different prospects. At five-and-thirty a man thinks of what his own existence is; when the maturity of age has grown into its autumn, he is wrapt up in that of others. The loss of wife or child then becomes more deplorable, as being impossible to repair; for no fresh connection can give us back the companion of our earlier years, nor a "new-sprung race" compensate for that, whose career we hoped to see run.”

Source: Lodore

“I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.”

Writing Trying Years Firsts Looks Mean Long I Can Remember Interest Lines Produce Favors Merit Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Kingsley Amis

“The purple light or glow, which appears roughly fifteen or twenty minutes after sunset... looks like an isolated bright spot fairly high in the sky over the place the sun has set, and then it quickly expands and sinks until it blends with the colors underneath.”

Looks Light Sun Sky Minutes Color Twenties Spots Sunset Isolated Fifteen Purple

Author:James Elkins

“And there are also languages that divide nouns into much more specific genders. The African language Supyire from Mali has five genders: humans, big things, small things, collectives, and liquids. Bantu languages such as Swahili have up to ten genders, and the Australian language Ngan’gityemerri is said to have fifteen different genders, which include, among others, masculine human, feminine human, canines, non-canine animals, vegetables, drinks, and two different genders for spears (depending on size and material).”

“The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.”

Ifs Years Actors Literature Rich Land Poet Hero Hundred Tragedy Jew Possession Classic Lasting Fifteen Aristocracy

Author:George Eliot

“Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.”

Desire Secret Boys Blood Youth Summer Conscious Drunk Flames Generous Breasts Shy Warmth Invites Betray Fifteen Virgins Maids Rapture Fetters Bashful

Author:John Armstrong

“I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.”

Book Class Five Ten Twenties Dollars Library Scales Fifteen Payment No Money

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“During his fifteen years in Italy, Hannibal never had enough elephants to suit him. Most of the original group succumbed to the climate, and he was always begging Carthage for more, but the people at home were stingy. They would ask if he thought they were made of elephants and what had he done with the elephants they sent before.”

People Ifs Years Made Done Enough Home Asks Groups Originals Climate Suits Fifteen Elephants Begging Had Enough Fifteen Years Stingy Carthage

Book:The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

Source: The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody

“In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.”

“Fifteen millions of soldiers with popguns and horses All bent upon killing, because their "of courses" Are not quite the same.”

War Courses Millions Horse Killing Soldier Fifteen Bent

Book:Men, Women and Ghosts

Source: Men, Women and Ghosts

“I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.”

Ifs Men Felt Attitude Study Minutes He Man Bounds Afghanistan Aesthetic Devoted Fifteen Advertisements Cultivation

Author:Burton Rascoe

“Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty species, most of them deadly, and Europe has only five or six, none of them much good. We have fifteen kinds of Rattlesnakes alone and nobody else has even one. [Footnote: There is a species in Central and South America, but it probably came from here.]”

Kind May Country States America United United States Five Six Europe Twenties South Species Other Countries Fifteen Snakes Boast Poisonous South America Rattlesnakes Poisonous Snakes

Author:Will Cuppy

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